The 50-year-old CNN anchor on Wednesday shared a pair of sweet Instagram photos of his meeting with a group of comfort dogs who headed to Las Vegas after the shooting.

“So happy to run into a group of @comfortdogs outside a hospital in #LasVegas,” Cooper captioned a photo of himself cuddling one of the dogs. “Met this group first in #Newtown and they help a lot of people who are grieving and in need.”

The dogs have provided some much-needed comfort to those affected after 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on thousands at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Sunday night.

Police said Paddock fired down onto a crowd of more than 22,000 people just after 10 p.m. on Sunday from his 32nd-floor hotel room at the nearby Mandalay Bay casino. According to authorities, the gunfire continued off and on for about nine to 11 minutes.

Paddock was found dead in his room of a self-inflicted gunshot wound before midnight, as law enforcement closed in.

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